CM, I agree with you on this:
"But I would be happy just to have the government take a STRONG PUBLIC role in embracing the standards and implementing the technologies. One could say that the Army's adoption of TPMs is an example of the advocacy we all need. But we need more than that.
but not on this: "There need to be legislative mandates and regulations... I think."
The effect of major government TC deployment and usage, by virtue of its demands on private vendors, and then their vendors (Weby's dominoes, remember) would suffice. Ham-fisted government regulation, capricious in nature and subject to the lobbyist du jour would almost certainly not benefit Wave.
JMHO,
Svenm